Strategic Nuclear Sharing

2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-29844-7
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 217 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3796 g

Reihe: Global Issues

The sharing of nuclear weapons technology between states is unexpected, because nuclear weapons are such a powerful instrument in international politics, but sharing is not rare. This book proposes a theory to explain nuclear sharing and surveys its rich history from its beginnings in the Second World War.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schofield, J.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Medizinische Physik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Nuclear Sharing and Why More May Be Better 2. Theories of Nuclear Non-Sharing 3. The Theory of Nuclear Sharing 4. Nuclear Proliferation Races and Nonproliferation Bargains 5. Wartime Cooperation: The Early Cases of Nuclear Sharing 6. The Nature of Off-The-Shelf Requests 7. French Nuclear Assistance to Israel 8. The USSR, China, the Warsaw Pact and Cuba 9. Sharing within the Western Alliance 10. Israel and South Africa - Nuclear Collaboration 11. Chinese Nuclear Assistance to Pakistan and North Korea 12. Nuclear Sharing and Pakistan, North Korea and Iran 13. Soft Nuclear Sharing 14. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Julian Schofield is Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University, Canada and a retired Army Engineer Officer. He is the author of Militarization and War (2007), and with Usama Butt, Pakistan: the US, Geopolitics and Grand Strategies (2012). He has conducted research in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Egypt and Indonesia.